Rose Jackson's Policy Safari

Earlier this year the NSW Premier said “pork-barrelling” was a normal part of politics.

At the same time it’s been revealed that hundreds of millions of dollars of government grants have been rorted by the NSW Government - everything from local council support to bushfire recovery!

So is this politics as normal? And why are people so upset about it? In this episode of Policy Safari we explore the murky world of rorts and grants scandals circling in the NSW Govt.

There’s been a renewed push to open up NSW to nuclear power and uranium mining. So what would this mean for our economy and environment, and why would it be a bad idea? Tune into our next policy safari which asks the question – should NSW go nuclear?

This week the NSW Government handed down their budget. We take a look at how state budgets work and what this year’s budget is actually like.

During the 2020 US election another 4 US states voted to legalise cannabis and earlier this year the ACT introduced laws that made the drug legal.

So what’s happening about in NSW and should we even make cannabis legal?

In this episode we sit down with Will Tregoning (Founder of Unharm), President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation Dr Alex Wodak, and a long term user of cannabis to see what they think NSW should do to reform drug laws.

You may not know it but the NSW Prison system is broken. Prisons are costing more and more while crime and reoffending rates get worse. The prison system also overwhelmingly hurts disadvantaged and Indigenous people. In this episode we will explore why the system is broken and what we can do to fix it.

We take a look at the ongoing concern of wage theft.